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Definition of Embanks
1. embank [v] - See also: embank
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embanks
Literary usage of Embanks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1820)
"... and embanks and distress her ii n'1 ' ' manufactures. Of the exports of the
United States, we may add, that 26,90.1,.. '! u„;.ars goes to Great Britain ..."
2. Financial History of the United States by Davis Rich Dewey (1902)
"advantage of a loan in the form of legal-tender notes, upon which no interest
was paid. (3) Argument of business interest. Contraction would embanks the ..."
3. The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria by George Dennis (1848)
"... no signs of which have I been able to trace on any other ancient site.8 It is
true that in this part the inner wall embanks the high mound to the north, ..."
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